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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lot of not

less than

1/2-ton:-

Delivered to

Peak

District' (above Bowon Rond), $23.00

per ton.

Dollvered to Bowen Road and Lower Levels, $21.00

per ton. Delivered to Pokfulam Road, $23.00

per ton.

Delivered

to

Kowloon, $19.00

per ton.

Orders should

be sent in writ- ing at least 24 hours before the Coal is re- quired,

All

orderS must be accom- panied by Caslı, Cheque, or Compradore Order payable to "The Kallan Mining Ad- ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office:-TIENTSIN.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as hárþor, plow, and althor){

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27

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HORIZONTAL

1-Causing death or

destruction G-Restaurant where

dancing and vaudeville äro features

8-Grand Jury action 12-Ralsed border 19-Dry thoroughly 14-Realsts constituted

authority 17-Circumstanced 20-Environ 21-Roman god of the

22-Practise the use of needle and thesad 24-Mamber of an

Indian triba 25-River in Bcotland 25-Fly that stinga

cattle.

27-A pastry

29-Destroy by violence 23-Suffix denoting

office or function

** Prefix meaning

"threefeld"

OTHE NYERNATIONAL SYNDICATE

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 31-Fesnoh for "it" 33-Pronoun 35-Imbibs in emali

quantities

26-Fixed 17-Small omament 18-French for “his”

VERTICAL (Cont.), 8-Conceive

beforehand

9-Ship's timber

10-insect egg

11-Those who intrude 14-Withdraws from

business 'Ilfe

19-Freest from danger{16-Tandona 41-Calls forth

|43-Forty subio fent In

16-Explora by secret

mathods

ship measurement 17-insect

44–Nominal value

1B-Passed into law

45-Open earth-cuttings | 19-Gods and goddesssa

51-More grievous 82-Te quide one'a

Dorse

VERTICAL 1-Fallow of the

Antiquarian Boolaty (abbr) 2-Diminutive of

masculine naITIO J-Beat

Artifice 5-Abbreviated form

6-To cakera

boy's name

7-Tormantad

20-InJuris

23-Shads' teara

81-Offensive odor

|32-Prench for “bed"

81-Boy's name

(shortened)

$4-Lethargy

|40-Animel

42-To be able

46-Money (Roman

Antiq.)

of 47-Tub used in tanning

48-Balutation

49-Make equal socres 80-Suffix. One who

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

"MAIL" REVIEWS

SURVIVALS OF OLD LONDON CUSTOMS

A PARIS THRILLER

TRAVELS IN HOPE

By James Mine. Drawings in Colour by Donald Maxwell. (Hodder and:Stoughton, 12/6 net).]

This is a very handsome volume, charmingly written and beautifully [Quaint Survivals of Old London Illustrated. Mr. Milne Is a lucky Customs, by H. E. Popham, man in being under two influences- Cecil Palmer Press.)

Wanderlust and R. L. Stevenson Four middle-aged and well-to-do which give him such joy. It is cronies foregather in London and evident that he loves travelling and interest themselves in the origins jotting down his impressions. Time of many of the quaint customs and again throughout this delight- and ceremonies peculiar to the ful book do we come, across a metropolis. Taverns, churches, Stevensonian phrase or plece of schoola, guilds and churities are in philosophy used not in a plagiaristic turn Investigated. The pooled re-way but quite naturally. We feel searches form the substance of sure that the writing of these the book. The ploturesque cere twenty two vignettes gave great monies connected with the Lord pleasure to the author. A beautiful Mayor's Show, the Election of the and sympathetic piece of writing on Sheriffs, the State Entry of the "The Cenotaph" which he calls "The Sovereign Into the City make plea- Heart of the Empire" prepares the sant reading and forcibly remind reader for a feast of good things. one of the reverence still paid to Mr. Milne then discourses like a precedent. To one born within the city lover about Piccadilly, Bond- sound of Bow Bells the excursions street, and Harley-street; like an into lesser known regions of the angler about the Highlands; like a civic history of London should huntsman about Devon; and like prove fascinating. The whimsicali- Mr. Galsworthy about a Cornish- tles of various London benefactors] man. He then takes us to Brussels. will amuse a wider public. . What where rather too much time la apent queer fancy, one wonders, was res- in locating the hall where the ponsible for the clause in the will famous dance on the eve of Water of one. Abraham Colfe, directing loo was held, then on to dear de- that he was to be interred in alightful naughty Paris, after which little vault of free stones, and we breathe the clear air and view that over it was to be placed a the blue sky and sea of the Riviera. plank on which the parishioners Rome, Naples, and Capri are then might take their case before go-visited and diagnosed. After hear ing into the church? Humour of ing about the attractions of Vienna, a grave form, surels. The book is Prague and Buda we expect to be in the conversational style and a transferred to Athens or Constan- light touch is added by the inter- tinople but no: our author suddenly arding of the love story of a most flies across the Mediterranean to proper and old-fashioned, middle-Tuniela and gives us an Eothen- aged gentleman.

like description of the desert. He then dashes across the Atlantic and, as if to show the catholicity of his taste, takes us first of all to com- fortable old-fashioned polite French- speaking Quebec "old and coloured by the centuries" and then to hectic, breathless, rushing, hustling New York with its sky-scrapers and

- ——J, C.

"MOVIE" FLAVOUR

[Stone Blunts Scissors,

Gerrard Fairlie, Hodder Stoughton:]

by

&

A story full of action from start to finish; the sort of book,

ed by the hero and heroine.

cafeterias.

ELDON'S EDUCATION

[The Schools of England,

edited

by J. Davor Wilson, with o "preface by Lord Eustace Fercy.

Sidgwick and Jackson.]

It is recorded that Lord Eldon earned his degree at Oxford in 1770 by answering two questions, one in Hebrew and one in history. They were: (1) What is the Hebrew for the place of a skull (2) Who founded University College? AB he gave the right answers to both questions, he passed with honours. Dr. Wilson quotes this story in the introduction. to, the book', which various experts have written en education in England, yet he ex presses no regret for the spacious days which have so long since pass- ed away. The impression left is that education is now a thing of great and growing complexity.

TWO THAT LOVED

[Diana, and David, by Cecil

Roberts, Hodder and Stough- | ton.]

At one end of Hyde Park is a statue of Diana, and at the other a statue of David, and Cecil Roberts has the quaint concelt to ask his readers to Imagine that his novel is the story of these two, brought up to date. The render will wonder why, because it is, neither the tale of Diana, the hun- tress, nor of David who alewi Goliath. It is the tale of a foolish young man who took another's name and nearly lost his Diana by so doing. It ends on a note of romance, but leaves the reader rather sorry for a much worthler young man who is blind and who

loves Diana,

5

HOW TO SUCCEED ·

The Horseshoe Nalls, by George "Weston, Hodder and Stough.

ton.]

All you have to do to make a million is to start with a small capital and double it about 10 times. That is what Val

Willoughby and his three friends did. They realised that by re- maining as clerks they would never cars their ease; so they cut adrift from their jobs and simply doubled |

The their capital a few times. course of business, however, never did run smooth; and so, just at the last coup, things went wrong. Still, out of the crash they retain-

one does not want to put down To the intimate little essays on and pick up to continue later.cach place piquancy is given by a This is a modern, present day my few Puckish remarks on the local tery story, with a sufficient numi- ber of characters taking part to ladies: as the auther says: "The make it Interesting without dis- human hall-marks of a capital town are its women: how they look, how tracting from the main part play- they comport themselves, how they dress." But the main charm of the As the title suggests, It is the book lies in the fact that the au- dogged persistence and patience of the very British sleuth, Victor thor seems to take us with him noted something which ensured that Caryll, which eventually track as a professional guide but as one who knows and who has caught the down sad win the day over an ex- atmosphere of each place visited. tremely clever and dangerous criminal. One admires Caryll for He loves London as if he had been face of difficulties and even death, Devon and Cornwall as if he came his pluck and perseverance in the born within the sound of Bow Bella, the Highlands as if he were a Gael, but one also cannot help having a sneaking regard for some of the qualities possessed by the villain, who is a weird combination of "Dr.

from the South-West etc.

Donald Maxwell's beautiful paint- Inga deserve a special word of Jekyll & Mr. Hyde." He shows praise and add a finishing touch to generosity and kindness towards a well-written

and handsomely- bound volume. This "adopted daughter," whom he uses

a tool in his evil work; he also has a keen sense of humour, but his brutality and fendiah cruelty more

than out- weigh whatever virtues he may possess.

MOSTLY CHATTER

(The Darkest Spot, by Lee Thayer,

Hurst and Blackett.]

It has often been observed that It is not till one has read about the darkest spot is nearest to the

Inst.

And

they should clerk no more. Val retained the starry-eyed girl.. All young man who want to suc

coed in business might' read this very optimistic yarn.

CONAN DOYLE'S VERSE

[Collected Poems of Arthur Conan

Doyle, Murray.]

Not great poetry, but still pleas sant enough to the taste of many are the simple ballads of A. Conan Doyle, as in his "Song

Bow"

What of the bow?

of the

The bow was made in England: Of true wood of yew-wood, The wood of English bows;

So men who are free Love the old yew-tree

grows."

High-brow House" was furnished

Well

With many a goblet fair;

- Grail

half the book that one suspects flame of the candle. Knowing this, And the land where the yew-tree that the millionaire American, Mr. Thayer packs plenty of dark visiting Paris with his beautiful blurs round his flame to confuse daughter, Patricia, has something the reader who is ambitious to pick It is certain that Doyle will be to do with the mysterious kidnap- the right one. The facts are that remembered as the Inventor of per, who extorts huge sums of

a dissolute young nephew has a Sherlock Holmes long after his money from his victime or their fat next door to his rich aunt, and rhymes are forgotten; but all the relatives. The real identity of the a key to her safe. She is found same, there is a kindly spirit in all villain is cleverly disguised, so strangled; but a mysterious old these verses, and a touch of wit that one's curiosity is piqued, and man also lives nearby, and he gets in his “Parable.” one's interest held right, to the himself suspected. Then a nice girl also gets mixed up in the plot, The superstitious reader will and a urbane family doctor, a take warning after reading this lady's maid, and several friends of So when they brought the Holy yarn, for it is through the frequent the deceased. The police imagine use of the colour green, to which stupidly that it is a simpla case, the villain is addicted, that he is but a red-haired detective named tracked down, and his cleverly Clancy steps into the breach. In- thought-out plans are destroyed." cidentally, a little girl who dresses Simple cottage was clear and clean,

The romantic element is supplied as a boy and sells newspapers has by the beautiful "daughter" of the a say in it all. A good shocker in millionaire, aided by the hero who, Ita way, but atrociously, written, though very busy crook hunting, being nearly all conversation. finds time to let his interest in the The following unclaimed tele-girl, grow to something deeper. grams are lying in the E. E

After Patricia learns the truth Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-as to the nature of her "father'a" Batan Singh, Sikh Temple, from business and source of wealth, she Bilga.

risks her life to aid those who are working against him, though at the

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle' will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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THE PERILS OF PETER

[East All the Way, by J. G.

Lockhart, Ernést Bonn. Ltd.]

There was never a space to

apare.

With room to store of will;

So there they laid the Holy Grail, And there you'll find it still."

Á HABIT WORTH WHILE,

Have you the habit of daily 're- gularity? If not, practise it, for Adams Guam, from Shanghai.

ill-health surely follows its neglect. Best known as a writer on the To restore the regular habit take Rebreg, from Newark, NJ.

last she remembers his kindness to sea and its mysteries and perlls, Pinkettes for a few nights; care- Textiles, from Singapore,

her in the past and rushes to J. G. Lockhart his swallowed theful diet and moderate daily exer- E. A. LEGGATT,

warn him that the game is up, anchor in his latest work, and proclse will do the rest. As a re Superintendent. Knowing that by doing so, she may duced an excellent, If improbable, medy for constipation, liverish- Hong Kong, 6th Dec., 1928,

lose the love which she had just tale of mystery and adventure by ness, sick headaches, biliousness found in the hero.

land. There is something doing and fout breath Pinkettes, the A neat compliment is paid to the all the time, from the moment when dainty little. gentle-as-nature- laxa- British by the fact that though the an Armenian, in a frock coat and Lives, are perfection. Chemists, events of the story took place in yellow bonte, with a cypher in his sell them, or past free at 60 centa France and the Surete employ pocket, appeared in Fyrd St the vial from the Dr. Williams3 The following unclaimed tele- their best men in trying to solve Mary's, to be stabbed to death in Medicine Co., 60, Klangse Road, grams are lying at the office of the the mystery, the lead is given to the rectory grounds till Veronica Shanghai. Great Northern Telegraph Com-the Englishman, Caryll. Garstin whispers “Pater, It's your pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

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E. 7. JESSEN, worth reading and also as a con- | Oxford „man; and the arch-villain Superintendent genial way of passing a few hours. want to Cambridge. :-Which is as Hong Kong, 6th Dec., 1928.

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